"As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; / [ . . . ] Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; 'myself' it speaks and spells, / Crying 'What I do is me; for that I came'." --Gerard Manley Hopkins

17 January 2014

Lightening the Heart

The nearly-full moon accompanies me down the old ferry road
this morning, her brilliance shining out from the thicketed limbs of
winter-denuded trees, the contours of her mountains and valleys clear to the
naked eye in the indigo of early morning.Opposite her the horizon is tinted deep orange shading into pastel
coral, the sky lightening as the sun announces his coming.I enter the building with joy, images of
beauty lightening the heart to begin the day.